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After reading this thread, I'm wondering if you guys have thoughts on this possible tweak to Witch Bolt: For the duration of the spell, you may make a ranged spell attack against a target in range for 1d12 damage. After hitting a target, you can, on the next turn, sustain the damage as an...

I actually prefer the subscription over paying for each thing. I really value having everything, and I value having it immediately. Plus I already bought the phb. $10 a month would be great for me. If I need to drop $30 up front just to use it, that would be a big turnoff.

I want people to fall off. I just don't want it to happen at quite the same rate as you do. I'm not making it impossible, I'm just making it less likely.

I love new books, as long as they're of decent quality. Even if they're bad, it's not a big deal, I'll just ignore them. I want to spend my money on good rpg products.

Right now, RAW doesn't seem like it has anything to say on what happens when someone is pushed off a ledge. That seems to me like it leaves it clearly in the realm of DM adjudication. I wish there was some more clarification on this in the rules, but whatever. In terms of general immersion...

Another cool thief ability would be the ability to create excellent forgeries of objects, including magic items. The thief can make a dexterity check to forge an item, adding his proficiency bonus. The forgery, at a glance, resembles the forged object. If anyone interacts with it for any length...

Something that comes to the top of my head would be the ability to "fake" having tools. Basically, at 13th level a thief can use whatever he has on hand to act as though he has any tools with which he is proficient. The thief is so skilled he can pick a lock using a rusty nail and disarm a trap...

I was thinking more in terms of 4e really, where everyone and their mother had forced movement abilities, including many monsters as well as PCs. There's a lot less forced movement in 5e, so it may be less of an issue. The thing that jumps out at me though is the warlock's eldritch spear, with...

I think that if you're fighting on top of a cliff, there should definitely be a chance to fall off. But making it require nothing more than a single hit to happen makes it very punishing and potentially anti-climactic. I'm imagining a scenario where yakety-sax plays and people are sliding all...

Yeah, I figured that (I didn't have the rules in front of me), I was just saying as a general thing. I wouldn't want to penalize one without also penalizing the other.

I have to admit being torn. In 4e, I really enjoyed following the changes as they went. 4e was the closest to a "living" edition we ever had. With the DDI online character builder, it was easy to tell a new player to hop on my laptop and make a character, and I didn't have to worry about it. Of...

I would probably do one of two things: If I want water to be a real problem for them, I would probably make them do some sort of check to successfully cast. On a failure they waste their action but keep the spell slot. I would only do this if A) there was an accessible way around the...

I really like the idea of prc's being replaced by new abilities that are like innate magic items. They are a clean, clear bonus you get exactly when and if the DM says you do. Like all magic items in 5e, you aren't entitled to them, you get them when the DM decided it is appropriate. That gets...

The barbarian is meant to match the literary tropes of the unreasonably tough raging warrior. There's a little magic there, and a lot of grit. The fighter is a disciplined warrior, sure, but the barbarian is toughened by a lifetime in the cold north. He just doesn't care as much about being...

The advantages could be: 1) Immersion: it's kind of odd in a game when, whenever a character dies, they are immediately replaced by a character of exactly the same level. Now, I have played like that plenty before, and it's not a huge deal, but it's still a thing. This can also have the effect...

In my campaign I'm planning on doing something close to this (everyone will start at level 3 no matter what), but I also plan on giving everyone double XP if anyone in the party is higher level than them and triple if they are the lowest overall. The flavor is that they learn much faster with...

For the record, the lamps and their destruction and all that was my primary inspiration. Although I have thought out the ecology quite a bit. The fact it works differently than our world doesn't mean it doesn't have internal logic. And it makes me quite happy somebody picked up on the Tolkien...

Well, that answer is complicated, but basically the spirits of the world use their own power to keep things growing properly. Whether or not this method is sustainable is a major question though.

I decided to make my campaign setting about literal points of light. The sun is dead, and the villages are built around lamps that are fed with fire from the mighty northlamp, supplied by the king and his priests. The power of the lamps drives off monsters and other evil things of the night, but...

The issue with RAI is that the I part is often nowhere near as clear as some people think it is. A good example of this was an argument I saw here about whether a monk should be able to knock the tarrasque prone with one of his ki powers. By RAW, he clearly could. A lot of people argued that...